The writer is Contributing Editor, The Indian Express

February 23, 2004 00:00 IST
The BJP’s campaign may revolve around India Shining but most of its star cast won’t figure in the limelight. Barring the top three...
Mon, Feb 23, 2004
February 23, 2004 00:00 IST
Within 24 hours, Mulayam Singh Yadav was compelled to roll back his “jumma” prayer order. He had to abandon his plan to close UP s...
Mon, Feb 23, 2004
February 17, 2004 00:00 IST
The BJP top brass knew three days ago that Mayawati was going to 10, Janpath to have dinner with Sonia Gandhi on February 15 and some of the...
Tue, Feb 17, 2004
February 09, 2004 00:00 IST
Many BJP leaders were surprised that the party could win so handsomely on an issue other than Hindutva in the recent assembly polls. Even Um...
Mon, Feb 09, 2004
February 07, 2004 00:00 IST
Denying he had backed off nuclear tests under pressure from the US in December 1995, former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao said today that...
Sat, Feb 07, 2004
January 31, 2004 00:00 IST
The beta-beti syndrome is bugging Kerala’s wily old fox and former CM K. Karunakaran, who has announced his intention to launch a new p...
Sat, Jan 31, 2004
January 26, 2004 00:00 IST
The fifth generation of the Nehru-Gandhi family has just taken the plunge into politics. With the announcement that both Rahul Gandhi and Pr...
Mon, Jan 26, 2004
January 15, 2004 00:00 IST
Call it another pre-election sop for the middle-class or muddled policymaking. But days after the Government made it cheaper for students to...
Thu, Jan 15, 2004
January 14, 2004 00:00 IST
The die is cast. Prime Minister Vajayee has just told the nation that there will be a new government in the saddle before the end of April. ...
Wed, Jan 14, 2004
January 13, 2004 00:00 IST
Ramakrishna Hegde, the gentleman of Indian politics, is no more and it’s ironic that he should pass away when the possibility of a Thir...
Tue, Jan 13, 2004
December 29, 2003 00:00 IST
If hype is an indicator of victory, and the BJP has certainly managed to create it around its victory in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhat...
Mon, Dec 29, 2003
December 16, 2003 00:00 IST
Rajya Sabha deputy chairperson Najma Heptulla is all set to get a Presidential nomination to the Upper House. Highly placed sources confirme...
Tue, Dec 16, 2003
December 15, 2003 00:00 IST
The Judeo-Jogi affair has not ended with the Chhattisgarh election. In the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls next year, the Congress and the BJP...
Mon, Dec 15, 2003
December 05, 2003 00:00 IST
As the Congress spent the day in mourning, its allies started the process of introspection on its behalf. There is only one refrain emanatin...
Fri, Dec 05, 2003
December 02, 2003 00:00 IST
An uncertain Congress walks into the winter session of Parliament tomorrow, its plan of turning the heat on the NDA on the backburner until ...
Tue, Dec 02, 2003
November 28, 2003 00:00 IST
Old warhorse K. Karunakaran, who is fighting an unrelenting battle against Kerala Chief Minister A.K.Antony, is believed to have mooted a co...
Fri, Nov 28, 2003
November 19, 2003 00:00 IST
Employing Track-II diplomacy, India today conveyed its concerns about the Sri Lankan peace process to interlocutor Erik Solheim who was here...
Wed, Nov 19, 2003
November 17, 2003 00:00 IST
It is incomprehensible why Jayalalithaa, who is known to have national ambitions, chose to blot her copybook by attacking a national media i...
Mon, Nov 17, 2003
November 15, 2003 00:00 IST
If the Congress’ adjournment motion against the Mulayam Singh Yadav government shows how the two allies have drifted apart, political c...
Sat, Nov 15, 2003
November 08, 2003 00:00 IST
There are indications here that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, who has called a meeting of his Cabinet tomorrow, plans to ...
Sat, Nov 08, 2003
November 03, 2003 00:00 IST
It is time to step back a little from the hectic exchanges between India and Pakistan on the latest peace proposals and the Centre’s of...
Mon, Nov 03, 2003
October 30, 2003 00:00 IST
Pushed against the wall and wary of the upcoming polls, regional parties within the NDA have begun the process of getting together to increa...
Thu, Oct 30, 2003
October 23, 2003 00:00 IST
The controversy about Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat’s role is far from over. His supporters are all set to use his 80th birthd...
Thu, Oct 23, 2003
October 23, 2003 00:00 IST
Even as poll surveys give the Congress a headstart in Delhi, the non-Congress and non-BJP parties got together today with a view to contesti...
Thu, Oct 23, 2003
October 20, 2003 00:00 IST
Only the politically naive would believe that Sharad Pawar’s seemingly innocuous comment about the “imported leadership” of t...
Mon, Oct 20, 2003



